February, 2023

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Bravery vs Cowardice

Candy Campbell

How often are we tempted to play it safe? Sometimes a little voice inside keeps us from really testing out what we can do. Whispering to us the something new will turn out to be dangerous, stupid, foolish, trite, beneath your dignity, above your pay grade. whatever. One trick to counter this is to name your little voice. My National Speakers Association colleague and humorist, Judy Carter, calls hers, SLASH.

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How Does This Happen?

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Many of you have read about the more than 7,600 fake RN and LPN nursing diplomas issued by three South Florida-based nursing schools: Siena College in Broward County, Fla., Palm Beach School of Nursing in Palm Beach County, Fla., and Sacred Heart International Institute in Broward County. […] The post How Does This Happen?

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Looking for your nurse dream job? Your resume will be your ticket in!

New Thing Nurse

By: Sarah K. Wells MSN RN CEN CNL Oh nursing! You are so amazing! A 3-day work week! Getting to work in your PJs! Endless job security!! However, finding the job of your dreams starts with a job search. The ticket to any new position is that resume, and I know everyone loves pulling their resume out to update it. My name is Sarah, and I own New Thing Nurse , an academic and professional services company for the nursing community, and I have seen a lot of ugly nursing resumes.

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What Nurses Need…

Life of a Nurse

Well, February is almost done, and locally the snow is falling; from inside, I’ll admit it’s pretty. The world needs a hug; the word compassion is required, but wars, inflation, mass murders, etc., sometimes make locating this essential value difficult. Last time the focus was on what nurses want, and the mood of nurses in Canada is one of patience wearing thin.

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Fertility Benefits for Every Age: A HR Roadmap from Gen Z to Baby Boomers

Speaker: Lauri Armstrong, SHRM-SCP - Sr. Director, People Operations at Carrot Fertility

Today’s workforce includes multiple generations of employees all looking for something different from their benefits package. While meeting these disparate needs can be challenging, a comprehensive fertility benefit can support everyone from junior staffers learning about their fertility health to senior leadership managing menopause and low testosterone symptoms.

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Mapping Health and Homelessness in Seattle

Josephine Ensign

Pioneer Square, Seattle. Photo credit: Josephine Ensign Although I love words and writing, there are many times when visual information is more effective at conveying complex ideas, facts, and emotions. That is why, for many years now, I have created digital storytelling videos about health and homelessness in Seattle. I use these videos in teaching and in my public scholarship.

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5 Key Healthcare Trends Affecting Nurse Practitioners in 2023

Health Leaders | Nursing

NP demand is quickly growing because nearly 100M Americans lack access to primary care, AANP president says. Growing demand for nurse practitioners (NPs) is among the profession’s key trends for 2023, its national organization says. “The future of our profession is bright, and we stand ready to deliver the care patients need,” says April Kapu, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, FAANP, FCCM, FAAN , president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP).

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The Truth About Trying To Make Staff Happy

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN A nurse manager described herself as a pretzel – I keep doing whatever I can to make staff happy. It only lasts a short time, and then we return to where we were. What am I doing wrong? This question often comes up during leadership development sessions. Many nurses […] The post The Truth About Trying To Make Staff Happy appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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10 Black Healthcare Leaders Making a Difference in 2023

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Black Americans continue to suffer from health inequalities that can reduce their quality of life. They face higher rates of illness and death due to conditions that can be prevented through regular screenings and checkups compared to White people. Black people are also more likely to experience discrimination or face barriers when accessing healthcare services.

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School Nurses Play Vital Role in Developing Children’s Health Literacy

Daily Nurse

The role of school nurses often has the reputation of being a treater of injuries for rambunctious kids. But they have a more profound impact. Nurses in educational settings contribute to kids’ physical, personal, and social growth.

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Why Menopause Should Matter to Today’s Employers

Speaker: Julie B. Chavez - VP, Strategy & Alliances at Carrot

An estimated 1.1 billion women worldwide will have experienced menopause by 2025. Symptoms like hot flashes, fatigue, and anxiety can be incredibly disruptive — and last for years. But despite its massive impact, little is being done to support those going through menopause in the workplace. In a recent survey, 70% of respondents said they have considered changing their employment to better manage symptoms — perhaps because only 8% received significant support from their employer related to meno

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The Relentless School Nurse: What if we are Getting Student’s Mental Health Crisis All Wrong?

The Relentless School Nurse

I shot up in bed with this searing thought in my mind; what if we are getting this explosion of student behavioral and mental health challenges all wrong? What if the essence of their collective despair was what they see in the adult world? Often when you scratch the surface of behaviors we see in school, there is fear, anxiety, sadness or despair. Reports have been linking the “mental health epidemic” to COVID disruptions , but what if that weren’t true.

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Researchers Aim to Improve Cancer Outcomes Among People Experiencing Homelessness

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As of January 2020, there were 580,466 people across the U.S. experiencing homelessness , with more than 50 percent of individuals lacking any shelter at all. People facing these circumstances are more likely to pass away from cancer compared to those with stable housing. Radiation oncologists are one group of physicians who can help reduce barriers to care for these patients, according a recent editorial by a team of Cleveland Clinic researchers.

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Nurses Still Lack Support From Their Employers on Key Issues

Health Leaders | Nursing

Surveyed nurses rate employers low in perceived support and concern about their well-being. Nurses need much more support than they are getting from their leadership and employers, a new American Nurses Foundation survey reveals. Nurses continue to be stressed, exhausted, and feel lack of support from their employer, according to the comprehensive survey of more than 12,500 nurses nationwide last November as part of the Pulse on the Nation’s Nurses Survey Series.

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Random Acts of Kindness Day This Week

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Everybody wants to be happy. But this can sometimes seem like an elusive goal. Healthcare environments are still social distancing, and the staff wears masks. Casual meals in the staff lounge and coffee breaks with colleagues are less common. We don’t have the same opportunities for […] The post Random Acts of Kindness Day This Week appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Maximizing Your Benefits Strategy: Reframing the Way We View Fertility

Speaker: Lizzie Wright - Director of Customer Success at Carrot Fertility

Employee expectations around benefits and workplace support have evolved in step with the growing need for fertility and family-forming care. As HR professionals, it is our job to ensure employees have a comprehensive understanding of the benefits our organizations offer and how they can utilize them. Before educating employees, we first need to understand the rising healthcare costs and the financial burden of fertility care.

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Forensic Nurse Comes Up with New Way to Detect Bruises on Dark Skin

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Nurses and law enforcement professionals often have trouble identifying bruises on individuals with black or brown skin. This can prevent them from dealing with situations of domestic abuse or detecting underlying health issues, such as internal bleeding. So, Dr. Katherine Scafide decided to do something about it. She’s a forensic nurse and associate professor at George Mason University who has worked with trauma patients for years.

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Advocating for Travel Nurses: How to Get the Role and Benefits You Deserve

Daily Nurse

Nurses are the backbone of the nation’s healthcare system and play a vital role in providing clinical care to patients and supporting other healthcare workers. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, nursing is the largest healthcare profession in the United States, with 4.2 million registered nurses.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Five Years Beyond Parkland

The Relentless School Nurse

“For decades, we’ve treated gun violence as a battle to be won rather than a problem to be solved.” – Nicholas Kristof And so here we are, five years beyond Parkland, the afternoon that brought the impact of school shootings from a professional concern to one that impacted my family on a deeply personal level. There are too many families that have received the phone calls and text messages alerting them to an active shooter in their loved ones school.

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National Prostate Cancer Trial Testing Therapy Based on Cleveland Clinic Molecular Discovery

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A new prostate cancer therapy in clinical trials could treat patients resistant to treatment through targeting the disease on a molecular level, based on Cleveland Clinic research. Prostate cancer affects one out of every nine men. Most patients respond to chemical or surgical castration, which stops the body from producing the androgens that feed tumors.

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Leveling the Playing Field: How HR Can Equitably Improve Health Outcomes Through Fertility Benefits

Speaker: Julie B. Chavez - VP, Strategy & Alliances at Carrot

As HR and total rewards professionals, we are often seeking opportunities to foster a better sense of community and belonging amongst employees - ensuring that all employees have an equitable opportunity to receive fertility treatments is one of the many ways this can be achieved. Fertility benefits make it possible for employees to access treatments like IVF.

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Searching For The Unknown

Nurses Advocates

How do you find something when you don’t know what you are looking for? How do you search for the unknown? So many times, I have sorted out issues by talking to friends and colleagues. Just talking about the issue and laying out questions helps to focus thoughts on strategies that you can look at. I realized recently I have a friend who has mental health issues and has withdrawn from family and friends.

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When Leaders Don’t Agree With Organizational Decisions

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN One of the challenges in any leadership role is that you will sometimes be asked to implement policies, procedures, and practices that you disagree with. New managers often ask me how they should deal with this and whether they should share their viewpoints with the staff. While […] The post When Leaders Don’t Agree With Organizational Decisions appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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The Hidden Dangers of America’s Pit Bulls

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The iconic pit bull isn’t exactly America’s favorite breed of dog. In fact, it’s one of the most reviled. Pit bulls are known to bite humans more than other breeds, which makes it difficult for them to find a home. These dogs deserve to live a happy, healthy life just like any other animal, but they need to be sheltered in a way that reduces their threat to the public.

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A Day in the Life of an Oncology Nurse 

Daily Nurse

Have you ever thought about working as an oncology nurse but weren’t exactly sure what the job could entail? Perhaps you wanted to get more knowledge about it to decide if this sector of the field was a good fit for you.

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Why Are Nurses No. 1 in Honesty, Ethics? Because They’re All About the Patients

Health Leaders | Nursing

Annual Gallup poll has ranked nursing as America’s most-trusted profession for 21 consecutive years. Nurses’ ability to ensure their patients’ well-being is among the reasons why they rate the highest in honesty and ethics, says a nursing regulatory official. In Gallup’s recent annual poll outlining the most-trusted professions in America, nurses ranked first for the 21 st year.

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When Studying Mental Illness in Nurses Means Studying Yourself

Amercan Journal of Nursing

Carrying the burden of depression as a nurse. As I read Anna’s (not her real name) description of how much effort it took to drag herself into work, how much she felt like a burden to her family, and her fear of being “found out,” tears welled up. “I know,” I said to myself. I was analyzing an interview transcript for a qualitative study of psychiatric-mental health nurses (PMHNs) who have experienced mental illness.

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Florida pauses enrollment at 7 nursing schools amid degree scheme 

Becker's Hospital Review

Florida's Commission for Independent Education has ordered seven nursing schools allegedly tied to the fraudulent degree scandal to pause graduation and enrollment activities through March, the state confirmed to Becker's Feb. 15.

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Are Your Staff Net Promoters?

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Healthcare systems are spending millions of dollars to recruit and retain staff. But what if some of those efforts are undermined by your staff? Consider the following story that a nurse leader shared with me: I was at the gym and overheard two nurses talking about their […] The post Are Your Staff Net Promoters?

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Nurses with Fake Degrees Break Their Silence on Diploma Scheme

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It’s been nearly a month since authorities first announced the fake nursing diploma scheme known as “Operation Nightingale,” which involved the selling of some 7,600 bogus nursing degrees to aspiring providers looking to become RNs or LPNs for as much as $10,000 to $15,000 apiece. Authorities charged 25 individuals for running the scheme in late January, but prosecutors are still investigating those who purchased the fake degrees with more charges to come.

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UnResignation Letter Initiative Champions Nurses to Create the Future of Healthcare

Daily Nurse

ConnectRN’s “unResignation Letter” initiative is a nursing movement stemming from an open letter urging healthcare facilities to consider nurses’ mental health, work-life balance, and flexibility. It encourages nurses to recommit to the profession, including those who have resigned and those considering leaving.

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Novel Therapeutics Clinic Offers Access to Early-Phase Trials for Solid Tumors

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To increase access to emerging cancer therapeutics and improve convenience for patients and researchers, Taussig Cancer Institute opened a dedicated Novel Therapeutics Clinic. Located on the main Cleveland Clinic campus in the Taussig Cancer Center, the new clinic provides access to early-phase trials of novel agents, including immunotherapies, cell and gene therapies, small molecule drugs, new radiation therapy modalities as well as viral therapies, for a wide range of solid tumors.

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Nurse Anesthetists Campaign for the Save America’s Rural Hospitals Act

Health Leaders | Nursing

Legislation to bolster rural hospitals includes provision to give CRNAs autonomy. The recent bipartisan Save America’s Rural Hospitals Act includes a provision to permanently remove physician supervision of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs), under Medicare Part A conditions of participation. That provision, along with another to include non-medically directed CRNA services as a mandatory benefit under the Medicaid program, is being cheered by the American Association of Nurse Anest

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Travel Nursing Pre and Post-Pandemic

The Gypsy Nurse

StaffDNA provided this article. The COVID-19 pandemic changed almost every aspect of how we live — from working remotely to shopping for groceries online and much more. Nurses and other healthcare workers experienced heightened levels of change and the stress that came with it. As the pandemic continued, travel nurses supported healthcare systems in unprecedented ways, benefitting patients, healthcare facilities, and their fellow nurses alike.